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    DTV Transition is well . . Transitioning

    February 17th has come and gone. Some stations switched, and guess what? People have survived just fine. The FCC set up call centers ( 1-888-CALL-FCC) that were equipped to handle 100,000 calls per day to help people with the switch to digital TV.

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    U2's Latest Album Leaked

    The music industry has always had a hard time controlling illegal downloads. Even when they desperately try to keep files under wraps, things happen.

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    Panasonic Plasma - 103-inch Air Hockey Table?

    If you can afford a 103-inch plasma display, I guess you can afford to turn it into a gaming table. Using an overlay designed by U-Touch, the display has multi-touch capability, so you can make it a virtual hockey table.

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    Hulu Dumped from Boxee and TV.com

     Just as viewing opportunities come, they go just a quickly. Hulu, with content from NBC and Fox, has pulled all of its streaming goodness from Boxee and TV.com.

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    POTUS iPhone App

    Not that POTUS, but the band The Presidents of the United States of America have a very interesting iPhone app.  For just $3, you can get a complete boxset-worth of material, including unreleased tracks and rare images.

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    DTV Day, Sort Of . . .

    The hot mess that was the transition to digital TV was supposed to happen today. At midnight. Some stations went ahead and pulled the plug - it was their option, and for many stations, it was too expensive to keep both analog and digital broadcasts going.

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    Sirius XM Saved by the Bell

    Howard Stern can sigh with relief. His home on Sirius XM satellite radio is safe, at least for now. Liberty Media Corp., parent company of DirecTV, has stepped up to the plate to save the floundering radio service.  In a corporate game of Six Degrees, it's interesting to note that XM was started by Hugh Panero, the brains behind DirecTV years ago.

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    What To Do With Your Old Analog TV

    Well, now that the DTV Transition deadline has moved, you don't have to rush out and do this this weekend. However, once your old analog TV  becomes obsolete (since you didn't get a converter box and they're as hard to come by as the newest Elmo toy on Black Friday) you can convert the whole TV into something quite useful.

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    Apple iTunes Video Could Get Streaming - iTunes Replay

    It's great that iTunes has so many great selections for entertainment. The problem is, how do you store all this material once you've downloaded it. A high-def video file is huge, and even if you don't buy it, renting requires you to have large amounts of storage available.

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    Blockbuster Playing Games

    Got game? Blockbuster Total Access wants your business. The company is starting a new program to offer video game rentals as part of its movies-by-mail service. They're going to start with a limited number of subscribers when the program launches in a few weeks, but the company is saying that it will be available to everyone by the summer.

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    Acoustibuds Hope To Improve Generic Earbuds

    Lord knows that most MP3 players come bundled with pretty crappy-sounding and fitting earbuds. In fact, most cheap players would sound just fine if they were auditioned with better earbuds.

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    Earmuff Headphones For Wintery Walks

    Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow, and alas, another few weeks of winter for most of us. You'll need to keep your ears warm and toasty, but most earmuffs get in the way of your earbuds. Bummer.

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